Next Generation Digital Editions

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 2:00pm - Click here to view webinar

During the Digital Edition University course, publishers have been treated to a historical perspective on the industry as well as given a sneak peek into revenue generation strategies currently being utilized to drive hard profits to the bottom line. For our final course, we'll learn what trends are coming and where the category is moving from some of the brightest minds covering the space.

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Speaker 1:

Steve Paxhia
Director, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice
The Gilbane Group
In the past ten years, Steve has worked with more than 30 companies by helping refine their strategic plans, raise capital, devise go-to-market plans, and make and integrate acquisitions. He is the co-author of studies covering Digital Magazines and Newspapers and on Collaboration and Social Computing. Steve served as Chairman of Rovia - A start-up that developed secure fully featured e-books for the college market. He also has considerable experience with custom publishing, licensing of intellectual property, electronic publishing workflow and technology, and EDI. During his 15 years in College Publishing, Steve founded the publishing industry's Pubnet e-commerce and information system. He was also CEO of Inso Corporation and under his leadership, Inso grew from a 35-person division of Houghton Mifflin Company to a 1000 person public company with sales of $100 million dollars. Now as director of publishing strategy & technology practice for The Gilbane Group, Steve Paxhia assists small publishing technology companies in turning their ideas into profitable businesses as well as helping larger companies to assess their strategy and current performance in order to help them accelerate their growth.

Speaker 2:

Nick Hampshire

mediaIDEAS

Speaker 3:

Tammy Wise
Owner
Wise Group
Tammy Wise is the owner of Wise Group Inc., a Midwest communications firm that thinks strategically and designs purposefully. Tammy knows first hand that you can’t be everything to everybody. That’s why she says any creative process must begin by identifying appropriate audiences—only then can you craft truly effective communication that delivers success. A graduate of Ohio University, Tammy brings 25-plus years’ experience in the industry to benefit Wise Group clients as well as national audiences, including the Society of National Association Publications and American Chamber of Commerce Executives